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Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:05:01 +0100 |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyring wrote:
>> My impression is that few (if any) of the autogen scripts use gnulib
>
> The one gettext does.
>
>> there's another definition (the first one when I type "dict bootstrap")
>> that is more evocative: to load and initialize the operating system on
>> a computer. Normally abbreviated to "{boot}".
>
> Well, that's the definition for computer-illiterate persons, not for
> hackers :-) Besides that, gnulib is not an operating system.
I'd call it a "historical" definition, rather than one
for the computer-illiterate.
Another feature: bootstrap adds .cvsignore and .gitignore
entries for files it supplies.
A missing feature: files supplied by gnulib-tool should be
removed by "make maintainer-clean". If gnulib-tool doesn't
do that soon, I'll be changing bootstrap to do it.
It'd be great if gnulib-tool could subsume more of the
functionality in this bootstrap script.
- adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/12
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- Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/18
- Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Karl Berry, 2007/03/18
- Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Jim Meyering, 2007/03/18
- Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Karl Berry, 2007/03/18
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- Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Paul Eggert, 2007/03/19
- Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Bruno Haible, 2007/03/19
Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf, Ben Pfaff, 2007/03/17